John Weagly

A friendly monster found in a dark alley. A tavern that exists between the planes of reality. A tentacle under a boardwalk. These are but a few of the oddities you'll find in this collection of stories, plays and poetry by Derringer Award winning author John Weagly. Contents Include: Detours on the Road to the Squid Circus, In the Garden Apartment of Madness, Down There, A Trip to Water and Sand, Armageddon Mackerel, Trick or Treating in a Sunken City, Squiggle, The Unspeakable Speakeasy, Tentacle Legs, Intelligent Ooze at the End of the World and A Little Wiggle. Watch yourself when you go outside, it's raining squid.

Ten Tentacles

Zoe Burke

Barb Goffman

Earl Staggs

Andrew MacRae

Herschel Cozine

Arlen Blumhagen

Lesley A. Diehl

Stephen D. Rogers

Steve Shrott

Gail Farrelly

Arthur C. Carey

Amanda Lundberg

Betsy Bitner

S. Furlong-Bolliger

Linda S. Reilly

Linda Hartman

It's the Thanksgiving mystery anthology everyone's been dying for! In 2010, The Killer Wore Cranberry showed how funny murder and food could be. Now, in 2012, Untreed Reads presents a new installment of the worldwide, bestselling anthology with a table full of seasoned authors and new voices alike. Join all of these fantastic authors as they make your holidays murderous and fill you with laughter: Arthur C. Carey, John Weagly, Earl Staggs, Amanda Lundberg, Betsy Bitner, S. Furlong-Bolliger, Steve Shrott, Andrew MacRae, Zoe Burke, Arlen Blumhagen, Lesley A. Diehl, Gail Farrelly, Herschel Cozine, Linda S. Reilly, Stephen D. Rogers, Barb Goffman and Linda Hartman. So make some room for that extra portion of turkey, scarf down another slice of pumpkin pie and make room in the basement for all the dead bodies in this hilarious short story anthology that's destined to become a holiday classic.

A Second Helping

The Killer Wore Cranberry

Tina L. Jens

This collection by John Weagly chronicles the legends and lives of Currie Valley - a hazy little town on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi. It's a quiet place, filled with ex-wrestlers, a bandit dreaming of glory and fame, a mistreated werewolf and love in a meteor shower. In Currie Valley, as with any good undertow, you might just get carried away."I love pleasant surprises and, in this business, one of the best pleasant surprises is finding evidence of a new writer worth reading and following. Thus I wish to bring to your attention a slender but handsomely produced collection of short stories called, evocatively enough, The Undertow of Small Town Dreams, by John Weagly... By the evidence presented in the 14 brief stories, he's an emerging writer of some accomplished work, and even more highly promising fiction looming on the near horizon....The tonal keys to Weagly's stories are whimsy and both the light and dark fantastic. There's a sense of Midwestern tall tale at work, along with a dash of the unexpectedly surreal.? -- Edward Bryant, Locus Magazine Review

Stories of Currie Valley

The Undertow of Small Town Dreams

John Weagly

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